Abstract. In this paper, we describe a new way to access information by “chatting” to an information source. This involves a chatbot, a program that emulates human conversation...
Capturing knowledge from free-form evaluative texts about an entity is a challenging task. New techniques of feature extraction, polarity determination and strength evaluation hav...
A fundamental step in sentence comprehension involves assigning semantic roles to sentence constituents. To accomplish this, the listener must parse the sentence, find constituent...
Michael Connor, Yael Gertner, Cynthia Fisher, Dan ...
Many machine-learning algorithms learn rules of behavior from individual end users, such as taskoriented desktop organizers and handwriting recognizers. These rules form a “prog...
Todd Kulesza, Simone Stumpf, Margaret M. Burnett, ...
This paper deals with the task of large vocabulary proper name recognition. In order to accomodate a wide diversity of possible name pronunciations (due to non-native name origins...